Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Trevor, William |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Date: | 1/1/1996 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
“Perfectly executed and chilling… a sad and oddly moving tale of lost opportunities and misplaced hopes.”
“—The New York Times
“Trevor was our twentieth century Chekov.”—Wall Street Journal
Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left she meets up with the fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reasonable Mr. Hilditch, who is looking for a new friend to join the five other girls in his Memory the strange, sad, terrifying tricks of chance unravel both his and Felicia’s delusions in a story that will magnetize fans of Alfred Hitchcock and Ruth Rendell even as it resonates with William Trevor’s own “impeccable strength and piercing profundity” (The Washington Post Book World).
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.